Note: Do not do what I describe in this post. I wrote this purely to share what happened to me and as a warning about side effects — not to advocate doing what I did. Talk to your doctor about any concerns you may have about your medications before doing anything. “Take this,” the doctor…
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Holding Over the Lifeliner Amazon Kindle Sale. Today Only!
Read an Ebook Week has ended. But I’m holding over the special Kindle price of my book Lifeliner for one more day! Today! Inspiring, haunting, dramatic, this biography of the woman who could not eat, has it all. “Lifeliner is the amazing, unforgettable story of a young woman who becomes seriously ill at a young…
Bugs and Brain Injury
“Remember, when you have a brain injury, everthing takes longer to recover from,” she said to me. I didn’t want to hear it, though true. When I first became injured, I had a series of homemakers and a series of colds. In the beginning, when the homemakers came from VHA, they were professional. They came…
Lifeliner: Chapter 21 Podcast
Sometimes the price people pay for being the first, being a pioneer, appears in their children. And so it was for Judy. It began in her eldest, first with minor rebellion then with running away and finally with an arrest. Judy didn’t know what to do. In the end, she had to send her daughter…
Review: Double for Death
Double for Death by Rex Stout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I borrowed Double for Death eBook from the Toronto Public Library, virtual branch, thinking it was a Nero Wolfe mystery, not knowing Rex Stout had written another series starring a different kind of detective called “Tecumseh Fox.” A bit of a surprise when…
An Egg-White Frittata To Die For
Diabetes. Cholesterol. These are the words that send a person to the cupboard searching for what to make that will taste good but not shoot up that glucose, those dreaded triglycerides, or the ever-bad word, cholesterol. Frittata to the rescue. Or to be precise, an egg-white-frittata. A vegetarian frittata made with all egg whites, provides…
Lifeliner: Chapter 20 Podcast, Chromium Deficiency and the Swedish Professor
This chapter is a story about diabetes, about how a remarkable discovery was made because of Judy, because of Jeej’s work with her. They discovered that chromium plays a vital role in diabetes. It was decades before the wider scientific and research audience started to understand the full ramifications of this discovery, but at the…
Review: Death Loves a Messy Desk
Death Loves a Messy Desk by Mary Jane Maffini My rating: 3 of 5 stars Mary Jane Maffini writes a mystery series that’s perfect for reading when life is getting a bit much and you need an escape into a story filled with non-stop movement, nice characters, clues buried in details, a story that is…
Review: The Cluttered Corpse
The Cluttered Corpse by Mary Jane Maffini My rating: 3 of 5 stars I dove into this one right after reading the first in the series featuring Charlotte Adams, the non-stop organizer of people and things. Probably not a good idea. The protagonist’s unflagging energy and curiosity, disguised as concern, can be a bit wearing…